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submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

My life is generally Mac and Thunderbolt centric and I'm trying to bring it into the Linux world. The work flow on the Mac goes immediate storage goes onto a 2TB external NVME, then to one of the two drive 4TB drives on my OWC open dock, then moves into a 16TB soft RAID array, and backup is on a 16TB HW raid all are thunderbolt enclosures. The issue I have is that mdam doesn't work on either my Trixie or 26.04 install so I can't convert my existing soft RAID to anything readable.

Does anyone know of a 8 bay preferably thunderbolt hardware RAID enclosure that isnt't 1000 dollars?

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[-] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

I don't want a NAS I want an 8 bay hardware RAID DAS enclosure

[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Link me to a single hardware controlled disk array that you're considering.

[-] Eat_Your_Paisley@lemmy.world 0 points 6 days ago
[-] just_another_person@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Also software. Literally in the description and options.

There are very few use cases for hardware controllers anymore, and they are on SAN controllers at a massive scale. Every single device you point me to at under $50k is going to be software.

Just wanted to clarify so you understand.

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